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Unconsidered Trifles? Environmental Archaeology at a Small Scale
Association for Environmental Archaeology Spring 2008 One-Day Meeting The 2008 Association of Environmental Archaeology Day meeting is to be held on Saturday 1 st March (St. David’s Day) at Cardiff University . The theme for the conference is the little things in life that fill the majority of peoples’ lives and how these intersect with larger events. The meeting will take place at 9.00am in the Wallace Lecture Theatre in the main building of the University. The deadline for registration is 14 th February. Archaeology has many grand narratives covering huge sweeps of time, mass accumulations of individuals and materials. Whilst an increasing interest in identifying smaller acts of ‘ritual’ significance has resulted in a greater understanding of more distinctive patterns in archaeological accumulations – the smaller scale practises of daily life remain largely unconsidered. As a science based discipline the need for valid sample sizes coupled to the cost of fine-grained analyses often result in an agglomeration of data that produces unrealistic archaeological results (e.g. considering hundreds or thousands of years as one cultural event). By examining what can be achieved through a detailed consideration of small scale acts different tales can be told about the human experience in the past. This conference seeks papers that explore the minor and intimate stories in environmental archaeology: the domestic and the mundane experiences that are played out on a daily, monthly, yearly or lifetime cycle and the effects that individual events have on people and places in the past. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
Proposals from for papers are invited by email to: aea2008@cardiff.ac.uk Proposal outlines should include a 300 word abstract for a 20 minute paper and must be submitted by 7 th January 2008 . Individual poster proposals are also very much welcomed by 7 th January 2008 . Registration information is can be found on the website and a small fee of £14 for members will be necessary to cover costs. This will include a buffet lunch, tea, coffee and abstracts. We will arrange evening entertainment for those staying on Friday or Saturday night (Skittles anyone?). Please send any questions or queries to aea2008@cardiff.ac.uk. For further, up-to-date information on registration, accommodation, amenities and travel, please consult the Association for Environmental Archaeology Meeting web pages at the Cardiff University Archaeology and Conservation Website. Accommodation Participants are invited to make their own arrangements. Cardiff has a number of high quality hotels in the city centre, most of which are within walking distance these include the Holiday Inn (from £65), and The Big Sleep (from £55). Good value, city centre, budget accommodation is available in Cathedral Road, a short and pleasant stroll across Bute Park to the conference and has been a popular hotel location for previous conference participants: please see the following web site for details http://www.a1tourism.com/uk/cardiff.html or alternatively call Cardiff Visitor Centre on Tel: 0870 909 2008 (UK only) +44 (0) 29 2022 7281 (from abroad) and they will book your accommodation. Hotel contact details:
Limited parking is available at all these hotels. Outside the City there are three hotels just off the A48, a distance of approximately three miles from the centre of Cardiff . They all have good parking facilities.
Other useful websites http://www.ukhotelnet.com/cardiff/hotels.htm There is also a youth hostel only a short distance from the University: Roath Park Youth Hostel tel: (029) 20462303 And a backpackers hostel and budget hotel NosDa right opposite the Millennium Stadium: http://www.nosda.co.uk/backpacker.php For further enquiries please contact Jacqui Mulville or Richard Madgwick aea2008@cardiff.ac.uk. Download the registration form aea-spring-08-registration.doc or aea-spring-08-registration.pdf
Archaeological Leather Group Weekend Conference HAVE WE GOT A TANNERY? Walsall Leather Museum , April 12 th and 13 th. , 2008 Members of the Archaeological Leather Group are frequently contacted by archaeologists who think they have uncovered a tannery site. Very often, the only evidence is a hole in the ground containing some pieces of leather. In order to increase knowledge and understanding of leather manufacturing techniques, the ALG is organising a conference entitled Have we got a tannery? It will take place on April 12 th and 13 th , 2008 at the Walsall Leather Museum . An international group of specialists experienced in examining stone, bone and environmental remains will contribute, as well as those who have excavated a wide range of skin processing sites, dating from pre-historic times to the nineteenth century. Skin working processes which leave no archaeological remains will also be discussed. Conference programme (.doc) to download file right click on link and select Save Target As...(IE) or Save Link As.. (Firefox) The cost for the two days will be £50 for ALG members and £65 for non-members. For further details and a booking form, please contact: Mike Glasson, Leather Museum , Littleton Street West , Walsall , WS2 8EG Tel: 01922 721153 Email: leathermuseum@walsall.gov.uk
37th International Symposium on Archaeometry The aim of the Symposium is to promote the development and use of scientific techniques in order to extract archaeological and historical information from the cultural heritage and the paleoenvironment. It involves all Natural Sciences and all types of objects and materials related with human activity. In general, papers should deal with the development and/or application of scientific techniques for extracting information related to human activities of the past, including the biological nature of man himself and the environment in which he lived.
World Archaeological Congress (WAC) in Dublin, Ireland The programme will be organized into large themes each containing several sessions that relate to the same overall issue. The following might be of specific interest to Environmental Archaeologists. Landscape Legacies: Archaeological Approaches to
Domestication in the Landscape. The aim of this session is to discuss
the relationship between anthropogenic transformations of the landscape
and the use and intensification of plant and animal resources. A brief
outline of the session can be found at Geoarchaeology and Dark Earths. The aim of this
session is to bring together researchers of Amazonian and European dark
earths, at first glance completely different types of anthrosols, in
order to share and compare their research experiences. A brief descriptive summary of the session can be found at the WAC website Wetland archaeology and palaeoenvironment: moving beyond environmental determinism . The recognition of cycles of past use and abandonment of wetland areas has often been considered in terms of palaeoenvironmental change, whereby human activity in wetlands is deemed to have taken place only when environmental conditions were favourable, and to have ceased when conditions became adverse. While the influence of environment on activity in such vulnerable habitats cannot and should not be disregarded, this rather simplistic correlation of wetland activity with environmental change may obscure other possible influential factors, including population dynamics, socio-political developments and cultural change. Scientific techniques to reconstruct and date changes in past environments have greatly advanced in recent decades. The potential to understand the phenomenon of wetland occupation and exploitation is now considerable as sites are frequently encased within a natural archive of past environmental change. It is essential, however, to consider wetland sites in the context of the wider landscape and along an extended timescale, to appreciate fully the range of factors that may have prompted their construction. This session invites participants to consider palaeoenvironmental data that, through multidisciplinary approaches, can inform our interpretation of wetland archaeological sites and landscapes beyond environmentally-determinist models.
The Association for Environmental Archaeology (AEA) AEA-2008-Registration-form.pdf AEA-Conference-Aarhus-2008.pdf The Association for Environmental Archaeology (AEA) invites participation in the Association's Annual Conference, to be held on 12 th –14 th September 2008, in Aarhus , Denmark with the theme: “The Consequences of Fire” The 2008 AEA Annual Conference will be organised and hosted by the Department of Environmental Archaeology and Conservation at Moesgård Museum , Århus. ( www.moesmus.dk ) The conference venue will be: Handelsfagskolen. Skaade Skovvej 2, 8270 Højbjerg – 15 minutes walk from Moesgaard Museum and about 15 minutes by bus from Århus city centre. The official conference language is English. The conference will focus on the role and consequences of FIRE in the preservation and interpretation of the environmental archaeological record. Fire is usually connected with some kind of human activity, and charred organic material, bone, weed seeds, grain, wood, pollen or whatever, is usually among the most abundant find groups recovered in archaeology. Provisional session titles: Intentional use of Fire, Accidental Fires, Transformation Processes. Offers of oral presentations (20-25 minutes) and posters are invited and should be accompanied by an abstract. Abstracts should be 1-3 pages in length, including figures and bibliography if appropriate. The abstracts will be included in a conference book. Please send them to the contact address below: Deadline for Abstracts (Papers and Posters): 31 July 2008 Contact address: Att: AEA ConferencePeter Hambro Mikkelsen Moesgaard Museum 8270 Højbjerg Denmark E-mail: AEA@hum.au.dk |
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